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Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle

This story of the miller Florian, who gave all his money to the war against Napoleon, is loosely based on a true story. After the war, Florian's reimbursement is challenged, and he must also pay taxes on his destroyed mill. He resists the tax collectors and takes off to Vienna, where he intends to defend his rights. On the way, he rescues the Duchess of Guastalla from assault. She also wants to go to Vienna, as His Majesty Franz II is trying to contest an heir in her favor. With cunning, luck, and dagger, Florian fights his way through a slew of nobility and their secret police.

Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle

4.9 1968
The Tough Guy

Iraklis (Hercules) Leontopoulos is a low-paid employee with a heart of gold, who inherits a building together with its tenants. His easy disposition is his biggest problem because he can not collect any rents. In addition, he can not make any evictions nor can he demand any increase in the rents. Everything is about to change when his lawyer Aleka Palli makes him play the tough guy in order to collect the unpaid rents. The consequences of this transformation will be hilarious.

The Tough Guy

7.0 1961
Alyosha's Love

Summer of 1960. A detachment of exploration geologists is working in the steppe region, and among them is Alyoshka, a guy who, before entering the geological exploration institute, decided to walk with geologists. Unskillful and messy in everyday life, he becomes the object of their jokes and practical jokes, which are not always harmless. However, his persistent character, his timid and pure love for the switchwoman Zinka, who lives with her grandfather on a crossing lost in the steppe, makes the guys from the squad take a different look at this inconspicuous guy and at his relationship with each other.

Alyosha's Love

5.2 1960
Foot Brawl

A nostalgic Charlie is searching through his college trunk when he comes across an old photo of his football team which catches Junior's interest. Charlie passes himself off as the team's star but Bessie insists he was only good at being their "water boy". Charlie, determined to prove Bessie wrong, attempts to show Junior a thing or two about the game. But Bessie was right; Charlie isn't the most experienced athlete. He dresses as a tackling dummy which leads to disaster. He also gets the football caught in his mouth several times. Finally, he attempts to kick a field goal but the football has been set up a little too close to a water spigot and Charlie kicks the latter instead!

Foot Brawl

5.0 1966
It's Not My Business

A small-scale cabaret troupe is touring the provinces. One afternoon while canoeing, Monique Darzel, one of the troupe's singers, spots an angler whose resemblance to Fernand Raynaud strikes her. She discusses this with Jean Duroc, the troupe's director, who laments the meagre revenues his show is raking in. He then had the idea of meeting this fisherman to convince him to imitate Fernand Raynaud in his shows. It turns out that the Fernand Raynaud impersonator is in fact Fernand Raynaud himself, who has come for a week's incognito vacation in the provinces. Raynaud is finally persuaded to play the novice comedian, in order to further develop the script for his next film, Les cabotins à travers les âges.

It's Not My Business

5.7 1962
Tři chlapi v chalupě

The three Potůčks live in a house in Ouplavice: a widower grandfather, a son whose wife has run away, and a still unmarried grandson. The father works as chairman of the agricultural cooperative, the son leads the local youth and the pensioner grandfather supplies the two of them with lots of witty advice through the trumpet of his inseparable pipe. They've got a lot on their minds right now. Their village is in competition with neighbouring Piscory, and their opponents are using dishonest weapons to fight...

Tři chlapi v chalupě

6.5 1963
A Psicose do Laurindo

Laurindo, a quiet citizen, divides his days between work and his wife, declaring himself happy in his three-year marriage. But in his spare time, Laurindo daydreams. And one single subject haunts his dreams: beautiful women of all shapes and sizes. One day, Laurindo receives a phone call from a childhood friend, then living in Paris and returning to Brazil on vacation. After the initial surprise, they arrange a meeting. During their conversation, Laurindo insists on forgetting his childhood to get detailed information from his friend about Parisian life, especially about the women of Paris. His friend doesn't hesitate: he recounts in detail his incredible adventures during Parisian nights with the fantastic women he met. The friend returns from Paris at the end of the vacation, but Laurindo cannot free himself from the images, and his desire to go to Paris to see "his women" up close becomes a true psychosis.

A Psicose do Laurindo

10.0 1969
Yangın Var

One day, Murat, a firefighter from Kadırga, goes to put out a fire at a mansion. Hilmi Pasha's daughter, Müjgân, sees Murat and falls in love with him. Müjgân's brother, Nihat, wants to become a firefighter like Murat. Müjgân and Murat meet again on this occasion. Müjgân confesses her love to Murat in a letter. However, Murat has promised Hilmi Pasha that he will protect his family's honor. Therefore, he is forced to reject Müjgân's love. Meanwhile, Murat's rival, Yalaza Nuri, learns of the closeness between the two.

Yangın Var

8.0 1960
Stadig Oor Die Klippe

A detective agency gives a complex smuggling case to the seemingly absent-minded PI Boetie Flenters - never thinking he will solve it. Monica Terblanche (alias Hester Smith) is blackmailed to smuggle diamonds by Da Silva (aka Hennie Gous) and his accomplice. In return, she will receive the negative of an incriminating photo of her father. The investigation takes Boetie to the village of Geenfontein. When he bungles things he is fired and takes jobs as a bus conductor, hospital porter, lifeguard, lounge singer and plumber. Then he meets Hester, who explains her predicament, and they decide to work together.

Stadig Oor Die Klippe

NR 1969
A Hundred-Odd Years from Now

An advertising film with a difference: Into a strange computerised future where women “run things” by controlling huge colourful computers that go bleep booble bob bob ping etc, comes Yockoo, the boy from the bush, with his satchel of dried fruits. Slowly the women overcome their cold, futuristic ways in light of Yockoo’s size, shape and overall manliness. Eventually they unearth their deep feminine sexuality and cook Yockoo a feast of dried fruit dishes using cooking utensils from their local museum.

A Hundred-Odd Years from Now

NR 1969